Day in Photos: August 9, 2012

A damaged pier is seen in Mahahual, Mexico after the passage of Tropical Storm Ernesto. Ernesto weakened from a hurricane as it swept over the Yucatan Peninsula early Wednesday.

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Syrian men dance in a circle around a drummer during an evening demonstration against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad in Marae.

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An Indian security personnel detains a member of the All India Students’ Association during a protest in New Delhi against the corruption and the privatization of education in India.

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A man carries beach umbrellas across a beach in Veracruz, Mexico after the passage of Tropical Storm Ernesto.

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A man works at an iron scrap yard in an industrial area in the southern Indian city of Chennai.

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President Obama wipes his brow in a hot gymnasium during an election campaign rally in Grand Junction, Colorado.

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A Syrian Air Force fighter plane fires a rocket during an air strike in the village of Tel Rafat, north of Aleppo as Syrian troops and rebels fought over the country’s biggest city.

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Firemen try to extinguish flames during a forest fire in Dornas, Portugal.

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A stilt-walker in a lion costume greets visitors of the 47th National Day celebrations in central Singapore.

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Residents evacuate from a suburb of Manila. Philippine authorities appealed for help in getting relief to two million people affected by deadly floods in and around the capital, warning that evacuation centers were overwhelmed.

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A man uses ropes to move to safer grounds as a river overflows in Cainta City, Philippines.

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Gu Kailai, the wife of disgraced politician Bo Xilai, standing trial in the Intermediate People’s Court in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei. According to testimony Thursday in one of China’s highest-profile murder trials in years, Gu lured a British businessman to a hotel in the southwestern mega-city of Chongqing, where she got him drunk and fed him poison. The secretive trial of Gu Kailai and a household aide, who are accused of murdering Bo family associate Neil Heywood, ended in less than a day at the Intermediate People’s Court in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei.

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A young Indian Hindu devotee dressed as the Hindu God Lord Krishna stands amidst his family members before a fancy dress competition held at the International Society for Krishna Consciousness temple in Bangalore.

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National Cadet Corps members look at a snake during a snake awareness show organized for 4 Madhya Pradesh Battalion NCC cadets during a training camp in Bhopal, India. NCC cadets from all over the state attended the show in which an expert displayed various snakes to convey the necessity for snake conservation, to familiarize with them and to overcome the fear of snakes and how to prevent or respond to a snake bite.

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A newborn baby is washed at a temporary shelter in Marikina City, Metro Manila. Large parts of Manila were still swamped in floods on Thursday, after continuous rains pounded the capital overnight.

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Models parade lingerie between cars moving along Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo, Brazil during a promotional campaign in honor of the early Fathers’ Day, celebrated on Sunday, August 12.